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But in ALaska there is none. The cruise industry is everywhere. Naively we thought that by staying north we could avoid the hustle of Skagway and Haines. But "they" caught up with us. Most boat tours include a trip up the Alaska railway and a day trip through Denali - where indeed we saw thousands of cruising retirees. Baby Boomers from the south, mostly (Kentucky, Tennessee, Carolinas). The cruise companies are currently pushing Congress to up the quota of 5000 buses a year, and to bring even more people to the park. We are all people, right?

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People say we are destroying the environment. I beg to differ: I think we're destroying ourselves, and taking most of the environment with us. Example: Global warming is not the issue. Neither is 'biodiversity loss'. It's how we organize ourselves as a species that's the problem. Is our social reality sustainable? No, and here's why: smoke from a machine, 'development' and habitat loss, these are more the symptoms, the physical manifestations (or Entropy) of a deeper societal process which is to increase productivity and profit, i.e., to increase the concentration of power and energy in the hands of a few individuals - at everyone else's expense. Agree to change that imbalance of power, to modify the current power system and install a true democracy where power is shifted from the wallet back to the ballot, to be shared by all, and you will see a lot less smoke. Unknowingly perhaps, you will be agreeing to a sustainable world made of ecological, human societies - without anthropogenic climate change, without species loss. Without war? Onward thru the BS -- as in belief system.

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David Rosane